The New Nation - Internet Edition

Sheikh Arif Bulbon

"To me art is an everyday life experience. I, Kaniz Azad Shaon, am a student in Queens University of New York in the USA. Currently I am working on my degree as an art historian and in studio art. From the time we weak up to the time we go to bed. Because human being looks for perfection we don't realise that every move we make art is involved. Basically our own style is art to me. In this exhibition, I worked with lines photographs and painting nature. My line works shows that how a simple line makes so much difference to our eye," this was the self expression of a budding artist Kaniz Azad Shaon at her second solo titled 'Life and Colour' at Drik Gallery in the capital. The exhibition was inaugurated on January 5 and concluded on January 11.

This was a very informal exhibition by Shaon. She is still learning in the USA. She came in Bangladesh recently and will again to her study place end of this month. She hoped that after completing her education in the middle of this year she could give something different to all.

Shaon, a student of art history and studio art in Queens University of New York, presented a good number of paintings, sketches, line-works and photographs. Most of her artworks portrayed scenic beauty of nature and caught the changing scenes.

The artist also depicted different moods of human beings through her line works. She had also created other natural beings using lines.

Shaon's paintings of landscape and seascape were very lively presentation of nature. Her inner joys and pathos also came out through her paintings. She painted both the gloomy and brighter views of nature.

Most of her line works are abstract but she very aptly outlined the faces of humans and other living beings.

Like paintings, the artist's photographs also presented landscape and still life.

She said, "My line works show how a simple line makes so much difference to our eye depending on how we see it or bend it in different direction and create a whole new world."

Even in my painting and my photographs there are lines involved from brush strokes to light rays from the camera, she added.

She said about her works, "Depending on how we see it or bend it in different direction and create a whole new world. Even in my painting and my photographs there are lines involved from brush strokes to light rays from the camera. In New York, I did few shows in 05/06 in Nassau and won few awards in 2007 I did the same show I am doing here in Bangladesh called Freedom. That was held in Philadelphia. I always wanted to do something for my country and so I thought this will be a great opportunity for me to start something here in Bangladesh."

Shaon always work with nature and its expression, which attracts her most of the time. Basically she is working in form of line drawing where expression of nature is vividly described in her line drawing presentation.

While working in the USA she focused on natural beauty and its changes. When she gets leisure she visits to many scenic places, which plays a pivotal role in her presentation to draw something.

Shaon hoped that after completion of her educational career in art she will return home and give something different to her countrymen.